02-14-2003, 11:31 AM
The problem is that everything is over simplfied today. We are dumbing things down to the point where people don't have to think in order to get through the daily ho hum of life.
Things like the electric toothbrush or electric can opener. Instructions on condom boxes, when you need written instruction and diagrams on how to put on a condom, seriously just choke on it.
The internet is much to blame as well. It has gotten to where you can live life without leaving your computer, it's even worse with people who work from home on the web. Think of it, you don't have to go shopping, you don't have to go out and make friends, you don't have to go and buy music or movies, don't have to go out for porn. Everything a person can possible need is on the world wide web, if it's not you can pick up the phone and get it.
The majority of people don't use this as a learning tool but as a form of communication and entertainment. So when you spend and ungodly amount of time on the web, then go to school/work, sleep, who has time to actually read a book?
People feel that knowlege is not needed in todays world, you can look up a couple of factoids or spout off something you heard on the news and get by on it in social surroundings. I couldn't possibly fathom living life without atleast common sense.
I was watching some show today and this reporter asks a lady
"How many vertical stripes are on the american flag."
Ok trick question there are none, cause the stripes are horizontal, I can excuse that.
but she answered 3. I mean come on, you don't even know the number of stripes? Atleast get in the ballpark, say 10 or 12, haven't you seen a flag?
The next person who tries to convince me that puerto rico is a state, I will kill them.
The worst to me are the people who know nothing, yet act as if they do. They'll spout off some facts they heard or take the opinion of some news reporter as their own. Yet when you ask them something about their statement they can't illuminate upon it since it's not their own opinion.
Or people who get all their facts mixed up and end up sounding like bluto describing how the germans bombed pearl harbor.
I can atleast respect the people who will admit they don't know shit, atleast they are honest.
Things like the electric toothbrush or electric can opener. Instructions on condom boxes, when you need written instruction and diagrams on how to put on a condom, seriously just choke on it.
The internet is much to blame as well. It has gotten to where you can live life without leaving your computer, it's even worse with people who work from home on the web. Think of it, you don't have to go shopping, you don't have to go out and make friends, you don't have to go and buy music or movies, don't have to go out for porn. Everything a person can possible need is on the world wide web, if it's not you can pick up the phone and get it.
The majority of people don't use this as a learning tool but as a form of communication and entertainment. So when you spend and ungodly amount of time on the web, then go to school/work, sleep, who has time to actually read a book?
People feel that knowlege is not needed in todays world, you can look up a couple of factoids or spout off something you heard on the news and get by on it in social surroundings. I couldn't possibly fathom living life without atleast common sense.
I was watching some show today and this reporter asks a lady
"How many vertical stripes are on the american flag."
Ok trick question there are none, cause the stripes are horizontal, I can excuse that.
but she answered 3. I mean come on, you don't even know the number of stripes? Atleast get in the ballpark, say 10 or 12, haven't you seen a flag?
The next person who tries to convince me that puerto rico is a state, I will kill them.
The worst to me are the people who know nothing, yet act as if they do. They'll spout off some facts they heard or take the opinion of some news reporter as their own. Yet when you ask them something about their statement they can't illuminate upon it since it's not their own opinion.
Or people who get all their facts mixed up and end up sounding like bluto describing how the germans bombed pearl harbor.
I can atleast respect the people who will admit they don't know shit, atleast they are honest.
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